Motivational Quotes

Money

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Money

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Fielding, Henry

Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

William Cobbett

I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.

Bird, Larry

It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer.

Clason, George S.

Money is the sixth sense that makes it possible to enjoy the other five.

Ney, Richard

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

France, Anatole

Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

Einstein, Albert

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

10.

A billion here, a billion there, and soon you're talking about real money.

Dirksen, Everett M.

11.

When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.

Ward, Artemus

12.

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

Donald Trump

13.

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

Buffett, Warren

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Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

Clark, Frank A.

15.

However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.

Chandler, Raymond

16.

It's just as easy to be happy with a lot of money as with a little.

Traub, Marvin

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A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

Senator Everett Dirksen

18.

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Plutarch

19.

The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

Johnson, Ben

20.

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.

Ann Radcliffe

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Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

Ayckbourn, Alan

23.

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

24.

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems, back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

Orben, Robert

25.

The more you chase money, the harder it is to catch it.

Mike Tatum

26.

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

e e cummings

27.

Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

Shaw, George Bernard

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A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

Fields, W. C.

29.

Getting money is like digging with a needle, spending it is like water soaking into sand.

Proverb, Japanese

30.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

Charles Dickens

31.

Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

32.

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem.

Vaughan, Bill

33.

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

34.

I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

Themistocles

35.

Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Plato

36.

The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Greeley, Horace

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Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying.

Bodie, Walford

39.

It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.

Latimer, George Horace

40.

Marry for money, my little sonny, a rich man's joke is always funny.

Proverb, Hebrew

41.

All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.

Marx, Karl

42.

From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash.

Tucker, Sophie

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The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do to more for the betterment of life.

Ford, Henry

44.

Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully.

Alexander, Scott

45.

It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

Sanders, Col. Harland

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There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.

Lewis, Joe E.

48.

Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.

Ernest Haskins

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I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love.